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2009 sure was a weak year in gaming

RE5 beating Punch-Out is a badly aged result imo

I am pleased that two of my waifus have exceeded #69

HeroDelTiempo17 posted...

The pacing, comedic timing, and jokes (to the extent there were any) were all off. It felt like the superficial aspects were all there but like Para said the writers weren't enthusiastic about it. The structure was more about giving exposition while using the format than actually taking advantage of the format to tell the story. At some points it honestly feels like the people making it don't like this style of sitcom and are having to write around it.

Yeah, I totally felt this way as well. It felt like a very stark contrast to me from, say, the first episode, where it's clear that the writers and directors loved this style and really wanted to do it right, and the result is honestly funny on its own merits. This, I didn't really feel the sense that they had jokes that they were really excited to do with this format, although I DO love the bit where Vision walks out.

I feel like this is definitely going to be our farewell to Vision by the way - I don't think he can survive this story and not end up completely undermining its themes. Wanda is going to have to move on for this story to reach a conclusion.

Yeah, I agree that the Modern Family style was used pretty weakly here - it didn't really feel like they had the same sort of enthusiasm for capturing that style as they did for, say, the first two episodes, or even last episode's Malcolm in the Middle homage.

I thought there were two episodes left?

This fucking show

I saw someone suggest that it was gonna be Agatha Harkness a few episodes ago and I knew right away that they were definitely right, but oh man the reveal is awesome

Xtlm posted...

This was my only Mega Man SNES game and I feel like I was the only person to like it.
I have no idea why I never asked for MMX games...Wish I had those things are worth like 300 bucks these days.

I feel you, I really regret that I passed on the opportunity to own MMX2 and MMX3 for some reason, I just beat them as rentals and never felt like owning them properly and that was a mistake

Laughing at how normie my opinions apparently are

1.
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3.
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5.
6.
7. Iron Man 3
8. Ant-Man
9. Marvel's The Avengers
10. Doctor Strange
11. Ant-Man and the Wasp
12.
13. Black Panther
14. Captain America: Civil War
15. Spider-Man: Far From Home
16. Iron Man 2
17. Captain Marvel
18. Iron Man
19. Thor
20. Captain America: The First Avenger
21. Avengers: Age of Ultron
22. The Incredible Hulk
23. Thor: The Dark World

I actually COULD see Guardians 1 going out next, but I think GOTG2 is far and away the most likely

IW, EG, Winter Soldier, and Ragnarok all most assuredly have at least one #1 ranking, if any of them didn't I'd be blown away (and by induction you can assume one of these is my #1 lol)

There is a 0% chance of nobody having Ragnarok at #1, I would be completely shocked

Weird math fact: it's actually possible for GOTG2 to have ranked #6 without even a single person ranking it in the top 6

World's End Club isn't a new announcement, have known about it for a while

Mr Lasastryke posted...

when the fuck did i say you're not allowed to have different opinions?

You're saying it with your tone. Calm down. Nobody has to "justify" to you why they like it.

Mr Lasastryke posted...

GotG2 is ok.

no fucking way it's a top 6 MCU movie though lol. looking forward to seeing how you guys justify this!

God forbid we have different opinions

It's definitely GOTG2 for real this time - no damn chance any of the other movies don't have a #1 ranking (and one of them is mine so I can rule it out). I didn't have GOTG2 #1.

ok

Pokewars posted...

Never called anyone a commie. Just disproved people celebrating the death of Rush as just about Rush and not conservatives in general in under 5 minutes. Ridiculously easy to do. You all have so much hate in your hearts. Still love ya <3

Don't pull this bullshit on us. We see through you.

My list is starting to feel amusingly cookie-cutter, lol

1.
2.
3.
4. Spider-Man: Homecoming
5.
6.
7. Iron Man 3
8. Ant-Man
9.
10. Doctor Strange
11. Ant-Man and the Wasp
12.
13. Black Panther
14. Captain America: Civil War
15. Spider-Man: Far From Home
16. Iron Man 2
17. Captain Marvel
18. Iron Man
19. Thor
20. Captain America: The First Avenger
21. Avengers: Age of Ultron
22. The Incredible Hulk
23. Thor: The Dark World

I think Avengers 1 will be next - too early for Endgame or Thor Ragnarok imo

When I watch Civil War I enjoy the second half of the movie on a sort of visceral level but every time I sit down and actually think about it I feel like I rated it too highly, lol. I find the politics and character motivations of the movie incredibly trite and I think it's super weird to try to have like this super serious plot but then HERE'S SPIDER-MAN. Maybe I would have had more fun with the movie if I was in the moment and I like, didn't know Spider-Man was going to show up and stuff, idk. I just find all of the conceits of the movie kind of annoying, it's a collection of moments that I find exciting on their own but the whole thing isn't very cohesive and despite what people said it doesn't feel at all like a Captain America movie to me, it feels like an Avengers movie

TheRock1525 posted...

I will quote the great Clarence Darrow on Rush's death:

An excellent quote that I keep seeing attributed to Mark Twain because he's apparently the only person who wrote things

Pokewars posted...

I never listened to Rush, nor know much about him, but it just seems tacky.

What's tacky is having the privilege of being ignorant of the way in which Rush Limbaugh has made the world a crueler place to live, and to question those who have any sort of awareness on the matter.

It was worth repeating

It is a good and moral thing to celebrate Rush Limbaugh's death and don't let anyone suggest otherwise.

Anagaram posted...

Played 2.3 hours so far. Not really impressed? It's less immediately engaging than I expected.

it's not going to improve

Proto Man

MoogleKupo141 posted...

Resident Evil 4 (I guess theres some spirits from RE, but that barely counts)

Yeah RE4 was the only other game I could think of

The game selling well in Japan is what matters most!

Oh and I should specify "not non-video game properties" because the answer would otherwise obviously be Goldeneye but I think it's fair to say I wasn't including that in my estimation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_best-selling_Super_Nintendo_Entertainment_System_video_games

#20 on the best-selling SNES games list. It's above stuff like Super Metroid and Mega Man X. The games above it on the list that are lacking in representation are Killer Instinct (definitely not a bigger deal nowadays), FFVI and DQVI (does at least have series representation), and DKC3 (which obviously does have series representation).

KamikazePotato posted...

Crono would be slick but I don't think it's as important as you make it out to be. The game is extremely well-regarded among RPG fans but honestly isn't very mainstream and has probably been played by a million people at most. Being on GameFAQs makes the game feel bigger than it is.

Well, what game from Nintendo's history is a bigger deal and has zero representation in Smash? I tried to think of one and I came up short. Or I guess I should say game series, since there's a few individual games you could argue for, like Final Fantasy 1-3.

I think Chrono Trigger is probably more mainstream among Smash's audience than you think, anyway (and for those who aren't aware, it'd be a good one to learn about), but even putting that aside I just really can't think of a counterexample.

Crono. Not my favorite character by any means, but Chrono Trigger is the most important game in Nintendo's history that I can think of that isn't represented in some way, it would bring probably the best OST that's not represented in Smash, and it would complete the Noble Nine. It's also just one of the most generally hype picks I can think of.

Eddv posted...

I do think Wakandas aesthetic is pretty racist.

Like there are actual cities in Africa that look and feel african and African nations with modern militaries and none of them feature thatched roof skyscrapers or rpgs shaped like tribal spears for some reason.

Like Addis Ababa is a legitimately ancient city that has flourished in East Africa and it looks so fucking cool and also looks nothing at all like Wakanda.

The vision of Wakanda makes it seem like africa is synonymous with like nomadic "savage" lifestyles that exist mainly in the western imperial imagination - but its okay because theyre rich now and they continue to use MAGIC spears and MODERN thatched roof huts.

Well, I'm going to avoid calling it 'racist' because I don't really feel comfortable making that judgment, but I do think it's sort of lacking imagination in how to more smoothly modernize African aesthetics. I think the argument here is that looking at modernized African cities today, they still have a western influence, even in somewhere like Ethiopia which was never colonized, but even if that weren't true, that doesn't mean they would have modernized to have thatched roofs - that's like the equivalent of depicting a US with skyscraper log cabins. It does feel a little bit like tribal cosplay more than a fully thought out and realized version of a modern African nation. My problem with it is still more that it's all too cgi and never feels lived in at all.

It's wild to me that Guitar Hero II was the #1 overall seed in 2006

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Right, but I'm saying it has to be at LEAST top 3.

that's what I meant in the first place, I wouldn't be surprised if it was, #2-5 is a crapshoot imo

HanOfTheNekos posted...

I meant 5th is too low.

I really don't think Winter Soldier is going to drop in the next couple of spots

HanOfTheNekos posted...

Winter Soldier in 5th just feels impossible.

I wouldn't be that surprised if it's higher

I think the villain being a guy who hates Tony Stark works great in the first film, because that's a movie where nobody has a reason to hate Peter until he decides to stand up and be a hero, and the way that that conflict becomes personal is immensely interesting and satisfying to me (again: the car scene is my favorite scene in the entire MCU!) but I do think it falls flat in FFH where it feels too weirdly impersonal and silly at that point. The theme in FFH FEELS like "Peter Parker just can't separate himself from Tony Stark's legacy, no matter where he goes or what he does", except the film barely acknowledges this.

I feel similarly about Stark's involvement in the two movies. I think using him, an established character, in the first film is really creative and works well, but the second movie feels like it's having a harder time letting go of Tony than Peter does!

I got all three of the Iron Man films exactly right which is pretty good

This was the predix I made before any of the list was revealed:

114 - Avengers: Infinity War
183 - Thor: Ragnarok
183 - Guardians of the Galaxy
197 - Avengers: Endgame
233 - Captain America: The Winter Soldier
256 - The Avengers
258 - Captain America: Civil War
297 - Spider-Man: Homecoming
306 - Black Panther
312 - Spider-Man: Far From Home
313 - Doctor Strange
335 - Iron Man
392 - Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
424 - Ant-Man and the Wasp
471 - Iron Man 3
497 - Ant-Man
513 - Captain America: The First Avenger
533 - Captain Marvel
533 - Avengers: Age of Ultron
569 - Thor
593 - Iron Man 2
653 - Thor: The Dark World
669 - The Incredible Hulk

Pretty good up to this point - I had AMatW and Doctor Strange quite a bit too high, and apparently I bought way too much into GOTG2's anti-hype. I honestly have no idea if I'm even right about IW being the top spot, it's weird to not be sure given how far ahead of the pack #1 is, it feels like only IW could be that much of a consensus.

The margins are still slim enough that it could be Civil War next lol

Good ol' Spider-Man.

2-5 is amazing, top tier chapter, totally brilliant murder plot, absolute gut punch

Garfield could have been a very good president if he hadn't been shot, and he shouldn't be treated like a joke

Monroe's ok, slaveowner but what're you gonna do with the founding fathers I guess

Carter is a decent man with a below-average presidency

Madison, Polk, and Buchanan can all fuck off

The funny thing is, I've only seen both Homecoming and Far From Home once, but Homecoming was a movie I binged in between the rest of phase three getting caught up for Endgame, and Far From Home I saw in the theaters when it came out, and yet Homecoming I remember with what feels like crystal clarity and Far From Home I don't remember that well at all despite it having the whole stage to itself.

I admit I'm a little surprised at how high FFH ranks in some peoples' rankings - it was a fun movie but kinda weirdly forgettable for me? And I don't really remember anyone talking about it at the time. I don't have a problem with it but I am surprised, since I liked Homecoming a lot more.

Oh and yeah I assume the next one out is GOTG2 although the margins in this part of the list are close enough that it could end up being Homecoming, Civil War, or even Black Panther I guess, but it's probably just GOTG2

Since I guess everyone's doing it...

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3.
4.
5.
6.
7. Iron Man 3
8. Ant-Man
9.
10. Doctor Strange
11. Ant-Man and the Wasp
12.
13.
14.
15. Spider-Man: Far From Home
16. Iron Man 2
17. Captain Marvel
18. Iron Man
19. Thor
20. Captain America: The First Avenger
21. Avengers: Age of Ultron
22. The Incredible Hulk
23. Thor: The Dark World

Everything left is a good movie so I'm not terribly bothered. I'm kinda surprised I'm as high in outliers as I am given that I really don't feel like my opinions are that far out of the mold